BOYS ARE MOST LIKELY TO HAVE AUTISM
By nazera - July 20, 2020
Hey everyone, how are y’all feeling today? Good? Okay! So today, I will share a few information relating to the Autism Spectrum Disorder that I’ve found on the Internet. Autism is said to be more common in boys than in girls which can be shown through research conducted by a psychiatrist who’s name is Leo Kanner. In his first studies regarding the disorder is that he noticed that there were more than four times as many boys that showed symptoms as girls.
There was also information that one potentially important factor is diagnostic bias: Several studies suggest that girls receive autism diagnosis later in life than boys, indicating that the condition is harder to spot in girls. For example, the brains of people with autism show patterns of gene expression that look more like those of typical males than typical females. Some of these genes are specific to microglia, immune cells in the brain that clear away debris and sculpt neuronal connections.
Boys are more susceptible to ASD which information that not even scientists can fully understand and it's hard for them to provide the right answer. But studies have started to open up the cause of the issues that can identify the answer for both autism and on some of the basic and ancient differences between the male and the female brain.
It is also possible that girls are somehow shielded from the condition. Girls with autism tend to have more mutations than boys with the condition. And boys with autism seem to inherit their mutations from unaffected mothers more often than from unaffected fathers. Together, these results suggest that girls need a bigger genetic hit than boys to have autism.
Autism may also look different in girls than it does in boys. Girls may have fewer restricted interests and repetitive behaviors than boys do, and may have more socially acceptable types of interests. They are also more likely than boys to mask their autism features by copying their neurotypical peers. As a result, autism may be more difficult to detect in girls even when doctors are looking for it.
Autism's sex ratio, explained. (2020, March 26). Retrieved July 20, 2020, from https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/autisms-sex-ratio-explained/
Why are Boys More Likely to Have Autism? (n.d.). Retrieved July 20, 2020, from https://www.appliedbehavioranalysisedu.org/why-are-boys-more-likely-to-have-autism/
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